Elementary Persianwas offered for the first time in Fall 2007 under the course title: Linguistics 40T,
schedule no. 82859.

The first offering of Arabicwas in Spring 2008.

A measure of the program’s effectiveness is the success of students’ ability to achieve
a beginning level of communicative competence in Persian and Modern Standard Arabic.
Student learning outcomes based on a combination of American Council on the Teaching
of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the U.S. Interagency Language Roundtable Language
Skill Level Descriptions will be developed over the course of the grant period to
identify listening, speaking, reading and writing criteria in each of the two languages.
This will provide direct and indirect measures of student learning in achieving this
level of communicative competence.